Institutions Trade & Economic Development
4th InsTED Workshop on “Advances in Institutions, Trade and Economic Development” joint with 9th Sao Paulo School of Economics Conference Series on “Trade & Labor and other Institutions” The workshop will take place at Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, Brazil, May 17th-18th 2017. Sponsorship by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development and the “Firms, Markets […]
Standard theory predicts that, in the long term, trade liberalization leads to an increase in allocative efficiency and hence an increase of fiscal revenues. This prediction is based on the idea that overall economic surplus determines the size of the tax base and an improvement in allocative efficiency increases surplus. Given this attractive feature of […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network: Prof. Marco Bonomo (Insper Institute of Education and Research) His research interests are in macroeconomics and asset pricing. Prof. Sarah B. Danzman (Indiana University Bloomington) Her primary field of interest is the political economy of international investment and finance. Prof. Stephen Yeaple (Penn […]
The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page: Dasgupta, Aditya, Kishore Gawande and Devesh Kapur (2016) “(When) Do Anti-Poverty Programs Reduce Violence? India’s Rural Employment Guarantee and Maoist Conflict” Dix-Carneiro, Rafael and Brian K. Kovak (2016) “Trade Liberalization and Regional Dynamics” Méon, Pierre-Guillaume and Ilan Tojerow (2016) “In God We Learn? Religions’ […]
January 9-10, 2017, Manila Organized by the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the ADB Conference on Economic Development (ACED), aims to promote the exchange of new research and ideas among researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners on significant and emerging topics in economic development. The theme of the next […]
Centre of Transformative Innovation $26,300 ($AUS) annual stipend 3 year scholarship based at the Hawthorn campus In recent years, Swinburne has progressed to become one of the world’s leading universities, ranking as one of the top 400 universities in the world, as assessed by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and one of the top […]
Faculty of Management and Economics, Department of Economics Is recruiting: Three professor positions Hiring requirements: · PHD IN ECONOMICS OR GEOGRAPHY. · KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: – Regional economics, economic geography, urban economics, natural resources economics and economic development. – Medium to high level in Spanish language. The applicants must 1) contribute […]
The Department of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University invites applications and nominations for an associate or full professor position in the field of economic development or international economics. Additional work experience in, or research focus on, International non-governmental organizations or non-profits is preferred. The successful […]
Lucca (Italy), 27-28 October 2016 The next meeting of the Italian Trade Study Group (ITSG) will take place in Lucca (Italy) on 27-28 October 2016, organized by the IMT School for Advanced Studies, in collaboration with Fondazione Manlio Masi. Since 1998, ITSG organizes periodical meetings of researchers and experts to discuss most relevant topics of […]
The rise of inequality in recent decades has led to the polarization of politics and social instability across developed and developing nations. Explaining the origins of the increase in inequality has become a subject of intense debate among scholars. A commonly accepted hypothesis is that new technologies are complementary to high skilled labor and at the same time tend […]